[Ethyl]

Europe is part of the battlefield of hyper-terrorism." Then there's this astonishing piece of black-and-white analysis: "Nothing, evidently, no cause, no context, no supposedly political objective, justifies this kind of [large scale] terrorism."

Weren't airports in France and Italy getting hit regularly by terrorists about 20 years ago?? I didn't care too much about politics then, but I remember that countries in Euorope were hit a lot by terrorists. Help me here, who got hit then and what is the difference now?

[tiamat]

A lot of places in Europe got hit. Famous train blow-up in Milan and things like that.



The difference is the fall of the Soviets. No Soviets, no East Germany, means fewer sources for terrorists, and fewer places for them to hide and get money.

[cripplecreek]

For starters i would say it was a different generation of europeans and of terrorists.

Then the terrorists had demands and goals, usually they hijacked planes and demanded the release of prisoners. Today they demand only that western civilization dies.